Jorginho and Loftus-Cheek doubtful, Kante and Kovacic may start

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Jorginho and Ruben Loftus-Cheek are doubts for Chelsea’s trip to face Wolves.

Both midfielders started Thursday’s 1-1 draw at home to Everton but are struggling after picking up knocks.

It means N’Golo Kante and Mateo Kovacic could start in midfield at Molineux despite a lack of game time.


Kante is back in the squad after injury but has not played for almost a month.

Kovacic, who was injured and then contracted Covid-19, only returned to training on Friday but might be asked to go straight back into the starting line-up.

Boss Thomas Tuchel said: “Maybe we end up with N’Golo and Mateo Kovacic from the start.

“We need to find a balance now because we put everything on Jorginho’s shoulders and Ruben got injured yesterday.

“So let’s see. Maybe we are forced to do crazy stuff that we would normally not do.

“But what’s normal? We miss key players and have to find solutions.”

There have been no further Covid cases among the squad in the past 24 hours or so.

Romelu Lukaku, Timo Werner and Callum Hudson-Odoi missed the Everton game after testing positive and are isolating so will be unavailable this weekend.

Ben Chilwell also tested positive but in any case is out with a knee injury.

Kai Havertz was left out against Everton as he was feeling ill, but the German has tested negative.